(fwd) Announcement: XEUS workshop at MPE From: Thomas Boller <bol@xray.mpe.mpg.de> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:07:56 +0100 Subject: Announcement: XEUS workshop at MPE Dear Colleagues, it is a pleasure to announce the International workshop "XEUS - studying the evolution of the hot universe" Date and Place: March 11-13, 2002 MPE Garching, Germany Motivation of the workshop: XEUS - the X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission is a next generation X-ray observatory under study within ESA and ISAS. The XEUS Steering Committee has decided to hold the International workshop with the title "XEUS - Studying the Evolution of the Hot Universe" on March 11-13, 2002 at the Max-Planck-Institute f extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. The aim of this workshop is to review and update the XEUS science case in the light of recent astrophysical results, in particular from XMM-Newton and Chandra and to involve the broader astrophysical community in the mission so widening the international support for XEUS. We plan to discuss a number of potentially exciting additions to the scientific capabilities of XEUS. Important dates: January 15, 2002 Deadline for Registration. February 01, 2002 Preliminary Scientific Program February 15, 2002 Final Circular Registration and Abstract submission: Online registration and abstract submissions for talks or poster-contributions can be done via our MPE-XEUS-Website: http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/conferences/xeus-workshop More detailed information can be found on the website given above. Best regards, yours sincererly Gther Hasinger Director at MPE